USHC - Unit 3 - Spiral Review #8 - Fitzwater

Which factor contributed most to the successful enforcement of Reconstruction policies?

• Public support for the Democratic Party

• A compromise between Congress and the president

• Pressure from Great Britain

• The enactment of military rule in the South

Rather than embracing industrialization, many southerners worked to regain the agricultural system that existed before the Civil War. How did the practice of sharecropping support this goal?

• It kept African Americans impoverished and dependent on white land owners

• It created new farms by dividing large land holdings among more landowners

• It encouraged diversification by requiring each sharecropper to farm a different crop

• It led to the establishment of cooperatives to promote standardization of farming practices

What was the term “carpetbagger” used to describe during the Reconstruction period?

• A southern white who fled to the North during the 1870s

• A northerner who came to the South for economic gain

• A southern politician who aimed to expose the corruption in southern legislatures

• An African American trying to enter politics in the South

What political development resulted from the Compromise of 1877?

• A renewal of Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South

• The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South

• Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy

• A plan to build the transcontinental railroad

What did Slave Codes, Black Codes, and Jim Crow laws all have in common?

• They were all laws passed in the North to stop integration

• They forced African Americans to work without payment

• They all limited the freedoms of African Americans

• They all prevented African Americans from marrying

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) had a major impact on the lives of African Americans because it ruled that...

• Segregation was illegal in educational institutions

• Voting was a right guaranteed by the Constitution

• Separate but equal public facilities were legal.

• Military occupation of the South was unconstitutional

Though they disagreed on several key things, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois agreed about what?

• Obtaining equal rights too quickly would be harmful to African Americans

• Achieving economic equality was more important for African Americans than political equality

• African Americans were most helped by gaining skills through vocational training

• Equality for African Americans could be advanced through education

Though a staunch advocate for all aspects of civil rights for both African Americans and women, Ida B. Wells-Barnett is most remembered for her work on which issue?

• Education

• Lynching

• Segregation

• Voting

In 1862, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act were passed primarily to accomplish what goal?

• Achieve Northern victory in the Civil War

• Develop the Midwest and western parts of the country

• Improve the lives of freed slaves

• Expand overseas markets to Asia and Europe

The most important factor in the destruction of the Plains Indian societies by whites in the late 19^th century was which of the following?

• The introduction of alcohol by whites to Native American society.

• The use of modern weapons by white soldiers.

• The destruction of buffalo herds by the whites.

• The use of reservations by whites to limit the movement of Native Americans.